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- THORSTEN HEINSResearch in Motion chief executive. The BlackBerry maker RIM is to pull back from trying to compete with Apple's iPhone and the Android mobile platform and instead return to its original focus on business users.

- SASHA LEZHNEVof the Enough Project. Responding to a growing outcry over conditions at its overseas factories, Apple said that an outside organization had begun to audit working conditions at the plants where the bulk of Apple products are built.